Career
Shortt was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 26 August 1916 during the First World War. He served in the Second World War as Director of Technical Training at the War Office from May 1943 before seeing action in North-West Europe in 1944. He became Director of Military Intelligence in December 1949 in which role he regarded the British Army of the Rhine Intelligence Service "as the most important Field Agency on the Soviet Army anywhere".
He went on to be Head of the Joint Services Liaison Staff in Australia in September 1953 before retiring in April 1956.
